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How to use dapper in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective, noun

Dapper means neat, trim. Example: ““I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.”

Examples of dapper by meaning

adjectiveStylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.

  • “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Plot That Failed”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company...
  • Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.1917, P. G. Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet

More sentences with dapper

  • Tall, dapper, brown-mopped Will was the closest thing I had to a brother.2014, Sean Madigan Hoen, Songs Only You Know: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Soho Press, Inc., →ISBN. From the entry mopped
  • Dapper Harlem realtist, Paul Jones, took the wedding vows with Baltimore teacher Bernice Soles.1959 December 24, Major Robinson, “New York Beat”, in Jet, volume 17, number 9, page 63. From the entry realtist
  • A real candidate arose to challenge dapper Robert Rice ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, aging coxcomb of the Senate.1943 May 10, “The Pot Boils”, in Time. From the entry spring chicken
  • You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard, “Any Old Iron”. From the entry napper
  • Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job. From the entry clerkling
  • The only conversation I have had with our dapper PM was an awkward phone call in which I told him I would be voting for Liz Truss.2023 October 1, Daniel Hannan, “It may be too late, but it is heartening to see Sunak governing like a true Conservative”, in Sunday…. From the entry Sunakite
  • Self-assured, peripatetic and unfailingly dapper — he favored dark double-breasted suits and the occasional neckerchief, and once made the cover of Men’s Vogue in Italy — Mr.2019 March 18, Jason Farago, “Okwui Enwezor, Curator Who Remapped Art World, Dies at 55”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry neckerchief
  • Though both are virgins, Violet develops a crush on a dapper, eerily suave student at N.Y.U. who moonlights as a club promoter and appears regularly on Page Six.2009 March 13, Holly Brubach, “America’s Next Top Author”, in New York Times. From the entry skeeved
  • We also get to follow Norman as he “floyders” around the Disney campus, which he stalks like a dapper would-be suitor even though his access pass was revoked long ago.2016 August 25, Alice Cronin, “Movie Review: “Floyd Norman: An Animated Life” Is An Almost-Fairytale”, in irishfilmcritic.com. From the entry Floyders
  • In a moment she flounced back, red with shame and anger—flounced forth from the fairest, whitest, dapperest dairy, wherein was all of the best that the keenest dairy-maid might need.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry flounce

Meaning of dapper

  1. adjective Neat, trim.
  2. adjective Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
  3. adjective Quick; little and active.

Full definition of dapper

Questions about dapper in a sentence

How do you use dapper in a sentence?
Dapper is used as an adjective and noun. For example: ““I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.”
What is a short sentence with dapper?
“You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.”
What does dapper mean?
Dapper means neat, trim.

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